Noel's Garden Blog

It’s embarrassing. I realise that it is 27 years since I was last in Ireland. *o**! and my son’s called Kieran an’ all. And I just went for ...

The self-sowing of plants in borders has always fascinated me – and increasingly I’m inclined to think that it is crucial to the long-term s...

I haven’t bought many plants from nurseries for ages, but I’m now so aware of gaps in the planting in key areas around the house and the fac...

Looking around classical Chinese gardens in Suzhou has been utterly fascinating. They are so different to any other garden spaces I have see...

    This has taken a long time to post - all my efforts to blog in China didn't work. One can get paranoid about the 'Great Firewall...

My very first blog (I think) was about a big new border at my new home. I had planted it in lines, one metre apart, basically as plants came...

    Penelope Hobhouse was our guest at Vista (London’s Garden Museum) last month. The podcast is now up on the Gardens Illustrated website: ...